
MSN states problem resolved but does not give full explanation. Microsoft has lowered the average time between builds to about 16 days since it promised to pick up the update pace two months ago. Microsoft: We've fixed mystery bug crashing Edge when Google search is set as default ZDNet Link above is a lengthy article which basically says the crash was caused if the search engine was Chrome. Microsoft has yet to narrow its broad "this summer" release timeline. "From here on out you'll see fewer big feature changes from build to build, and more tuning, tweaking, stabilizing, and polishing," Aul said. The latter is yet another hint at how aggressive Microsoft will be in promoting Windows Store apps - one of the biggest revenue generators in the company's strategy to monetize the increasingly-free OS.Īul also pointed out that going forward, the updates would fine-tune the new OS, but not make major changes.

In Edge, the new tab page - which appears whenever the user requests a new tab - is much busier, filled not only with images of the most-frequently-visited websites, but also news and other content from MSN, as well as apps Microsoft happens to highlight.

The new tab page, which the company showed off last month at its Build developers conference, is a dramatic overhaul of the current thumbnails-only approach used by Internet Explorer 11 (IE11).
